Weimar/ BuchenWald

Today, Saturday August the 14th, we went to Weimar and BuchenWald, which is in Weimar. We didn´t do too much in Weimar except for a tour that we took. Our tour lasted about 2 to 2 and a half hours. The place that I remember the most was probably the Schiller/Goethe statue. There are two reasons why the stature stuck out in my mind. The first is that it is so big. The other reason is that on the tour that we took, the tour guide was describing the statue and I understand what he said about the statue and a lot about Goethe and Schiller. The statue though had both Schiller and Goethe standing together with Goethe on Schiller´s right side. Schiller had his head tilted to his left as though he was thinking while Goethe had his head more directed to the front. The reasoning behind though head gestures is because Schiller was a more out there kind of guy, thinking of what could be done. Goethe on the other had more of a realistic point of view on things. Nothing really surprised me about the city. The thing that helped me the most that I did read was about the Weimar Republic.

I didn´t pick up too much from Buchenwald. I went to what they called the Disinfectant building and I found out that the disenfectant building at other concentration camps was used on humans while this disinfectant building was used just on clothes and incoming objects. I had to stand in the middle of all of the blocks and think about what happened there. There where over fifty blocks or buildings were kept and each block had about one occupants in it. I went into only two other buildings. One was that of a reconstructed building for urinals and the other was the crematorium. The one for the urinals was actually used to kill people in. A person would be brought into the room, and the first guard would measure the height of the person, while a second guard that was in a separate room would shoot the person in the neck through a slot in the Wall. The crematorium, I learned, was adjusted during the war with new furnaces.